Justin Johnson | Roots Blues Slide Guitar on Instagram: "🎸 Here’s a simple, fun way to start playing solo fingerpicking blues! In this quick lesson, I show you how to build that classic boom-chick / ragtime groove by using your thumb to lay down a muted, percussive bass line. Once that steady bass is rolling, you add simple melody notes on the high E and B strings—open and at the 3rd fret—to make it sound like two guitarists playing at once. Start slow, get the thumb pattern locked in, then wea